The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, October 8, 1945, Page 4

MONDAY, OCTOBER 8, 1945 TRIPLETTE & KRUSE . BUILDING CONTRACTORS EXPERT CABINET WORK OF ALL KINDS 20TH CENTURY MARKET BUILDING PAGE FOUR ’bc expected to pay for the privilege of .3 o Daily Alaska Empire .. Published every evening except Sunday by the | ‘While these young Americans knuckled under to EMPILE PRINTING COMPANY | hardship and discipline, and sailed to every point of A L e e e g the compass to face enemy bullets, union leaders seized {;;{f‘u;;{\ H“ z{“’;l ,_§ ;j'-" upon the emergency to further their hold on m(llls!.n:fl ELMER A. FRIEND America. Instead of freezing the status of unions L and all their contracts, government leaders fell over &ntered in the Pos each other extending the closed shop on every hand, and announced that membership’ | had become ‘national policy.’ While Nazi shrapnel burst Japs beheaded American prisoners ducted half-hearted campaigns against in the war plants and even had to bring some warriors to get out the Prestdent i i) Vice-President OCTOBER 8, 1925 In the opening game of the World Series played the previous day the Washington Senators defeated the Pittsburgh Pirates 4 to 1, with 5@ * ! walter Johnson, winning pitcher. Office fn Juneau as SUBSCRIPTION RATE! Delivered by carrier alx months, $5.00 SHOP PHONE 9% After 5:00 P. M. PHONE 564 Silver Bow Lodge| MOUNT JUNEAU LODGE NO. 147 No.A 2, 10.0.F. SECOND and FOURTH @Meets each Tues- Monday of each month day at 8:00 P. M. I O. O. F. HALL. - Hoptngy m.;? Togple Visiting Brothers Welcome EEKFM(I::;:;;N':& l\;}o: BEN O. HAVDAHL, Noble Grand | gnipful Master; JAMES W. LEIV- ERS, Secretary. | GEORGEBROS. Widest Selection of LIQUORS PHONE 92 or 95 B. P. 0. ELKS Meets every Wednesday at 8 p. m. Visiting brothers welcome. L. J. HOLMQUIST, Exalted Rul- er; H. L. McDONALD, Secretary. s for §1.50 per month; ‘maintenance of e year, $15.00, v tage pald, at the following rates: e, $15.00; six months, in advance, $7.50; will confer a favor if they will prompuly notify s Office of any faflure or irregularity in the de- Edna Nelson | Mabel Travers | Gloria Gudbranson Mrs. A. F. McKinnon W. B. Kirk Russell McGee Doris Irene Cahill Kathleen Jeanne Toner Warren Geddes, who had been visiting in Bellinghanr and Seattle, over Anzio and the eturned the previous day on the steamer Yukon. our officials con- absenteeism Glenn Carrington, Alaska representative for the W. P. Fuller Paint 602; Business Office, 374. " back to plead with high-paid loiterer: machinery of battle “Oh. Congress said that men snatched from their workbench to fill the fighting ranks would get back when they returned. But the big unions argued the point of seniority, and are still 50 e & werrr e 1 | “The stars incline but do not compel” ASS TED PRERS 3 clusively entitled to the use for spatches credited to it or not other- wnd also the local news published Covers were laid for 200 at the community banquet held at the republication of Elks Hall, at which Henry Roden was toastmaster and H. L. Faulkner wise credited berein e | . ’ Warfields’ Drug Stoxe (Formerly Guy L. Smith Drugs) NYAL Family Remedies HORLUCK’S DANISH ICE CREAM e e 0 00 60 00 00 S ’ NATIONAL REPRE! jas the main speaker Pourth g Aluskn Newspapers, 1411 | ) o | | jobs The gasoline shortage which threatened Juneau was relieved with ‘(hv arrival of the Standard Oil tanker, Alaska Standard. The local | station was out of gasoline for two days it was reported, and the arrival jof the Alaska Standard was just in time to avoid the shortage being keenly felt in the city. ‘ L The Sewing Basket e e The Elks announced plans for a big minstrel show to be held in | November. This was the first public theatrical performance -given by BABY HEADQUARTERS Infant and Children’s Wear the Elks in two years, and much interest was being shown in the various 139 8. Franklin Juneau, Alaska [ DR.E.H. KASER | DENTIST BLOMGREN BUILDING Phone 56 HOURS: 9 A. M. to 5 P. M. Seattle, Wash by a leaving an open shop job could go back t arguing | soldier | work without joining a union not of his own choice, if that job had been covered in the meantime by a closed shop contract . I | These men went to war to preserve the country as they left it. They did not fight to limit their right |to work. They are coming home determinedly inde- | pendent and full of cynicism already well-nurtured | by their disgust over strikes and other union going-on | “The Higgins case is but one of the many we shall | see in months to come, as union leaders meet return- ling veterans head-on. Anybody with half an eye |could see the clash approaching. “But what have we done about averting it labor- b e TUESDAY, OCTOBER 9 Benefic aspects rule strongly to- parts. day which should be favorable for PLEY all constructive work. The stage is| A daughter, Alberta Marie, was born the previous day to Mrs. Albert subject to fortunate influences. |pgrger in St. Ann’s Hospital. The Parkers were from Strawberry Point, HEART AND HOME , where Mr, Parker operated a farm. The seers point out that after the il first world war books, plays and the press emphasized the power of ma- terial achievements. Now astrologers stress the fact that the Aquarian age brings the aspiration of justice,! righteousness, wisdom. BU, AFFAIRS According to certain signs the oy wrge toward speculation will be WORDS OFTEN MISUSED: Do not say, “The sea air:is healthy.” strong and will be preceded by many Say, “is healthful.” es of the rule of the goddess OFTEN MISPRONOUNCED: Calumny. ‘The quest for easy money in AT, I as in IT, accent first syllable. g and its results dis- OFTEN MISSPELLED: Acoustic; two C's, no K. ““’“‘“"f\{%ir,(]AVAL R iory i SYTN.ONYMS: Prematurity, prematureness, immaturity, untimeliness, Great increase in perils to human Rrecacliy. y life in cities is indicated by the WORD STUDY: “Use a word three times and it is yours.” Let us stars. Methods of protection from increase our vocabulary by mastering one word each day. Today's word: accidents will be of great national FLUCTUATION; a wavering; unsteadiness. “Fluctuations of opinions.” concern. As airplanes multip] — by special care will be necessary to safe- ROBERTA L guard persons and property on the [ FLOWERLAND | CUT FLOWERS—POTTED PLANTS—CORSAGES Funeral Sprays and Wreaths 2nd and Frankim Phone 557 Weather: Highest, 52; lowest, 47; rain e it e i e Daily Lessons in English % 1. corbon e ing men and women of America?” LABOR STRIKES A good m‘:\n_v returning vuwx'unvs have gone back | Shift to Weekly Earnings to peacetime jobs only to find that instead of working - W stayed at now decided they must Undoubtedly for (New York Times) Current demands for wage ir ses are empha: | ing the objective of maintaining wartime weekly earn- |ings. Since the work week was forty-cight hours long id\umg the war and is now being cut back to forty envelopes a few weeks of idleness isn't going to hurt, | hours, a 30 per cent increase in hourly earnings is ! required to maintain wartime weekly earnings. This but the men who fought the war on a private's pay |is calculated as follows: If a worker were earning a probably don’t feel the same way. The Labor Digest | don p ¥ fved $52 for a forty-eight-hour recently printed what seems to be a good summary | O s . i G 7 4 WY | week because of time and a half for the last eight of the situation. Entitled, “Free Labor Speaks” it |p,us. To receive the same income for 40 hours the follows | hourly rate must be $1.30, or an increase of 30 per ‘Ever since the passage of the draft law, and cent. It is this attempt to compensate for the re- especially since Pearl Harbor, we have heard a lot | duction in hours, therefore, that accounts for the many of sober talk about preventing the rise of antagonism {30 per cent,increases in hourly rates now being between war veterans and the leaders of organized |demanded. Jabor. Well, what has been done about it? ‘ This emphasis upon weekly carnings represents a “This week we see one of the end-results of fight- | complete reverfinl uf_ ]u_bur,x wartime position. Duvr!ng S pRIER Y X ¢ e QA taahiotian | the war the unions insisted that their relative position ing a war on the battle fronts in the ol ' was measured by changes in basic straight time wage blood-and-guts way—and conducting it on the home | .oveq and not by any of the other available yardsticks front by handling labor unions with doeskin gloves. | of earnings. The following tabulation shows how “We refer to the strike of 7,000 workers at Higgins | labor’s earning power increased during the war accord- Industries in New Orleans, where ships are built for |ing to various available measures: War purpos A press association reports that the strike over a snarled contract came after ‘recent nego- tiations were blocked by union officials refusing to allow returning members of the armed forces to accept they are striking because workers who Vs ASHENBRENNER’S NEW AND USED FURNITURE Phone 788—306 Willoughby Ave. {umpmBeboE Lons it | d LAY Dr. A. W. Stewart DENTIST 20TH CENTURY BUILDING Office Phone 469 home during the war have have & 30 percent increase in wages. evider Pronounce kal-um-ni, A as of chance. will be keen those who managed to save some of their fat pay Dr. John H. Geyer VUENTIST Room 8—Valentine Bldg. PHONE 1762 Jones-Stevens Shop LADIES'—MISSES" READY-TO-WEAR Seward Street { MODERN ETIQUETTE ' Near Third ground. E INTERNATIONAL AFFAIRS E Royalty will be outmoded as people learn to rule l‘hembelvs& The stars Q. Is it necessary to send a reply when one receives an invitation seem to forbid the restoration Of . itten on a visiting card? any monarch to his throne and to P G s oty o 5 i it presage the disappearance of the A. Tt is not absolutely necsesary, although a hostess is always grate- ful to receive a reply. last king or queen by the end of the century. ! Q. When a wedding engagement is broken, what should the girl Persons whose birthdate it is have return to the man? the augury of a year of perplexities. A. Al gifts of jewelry, including the engagement ring, all photo- Much will depend upon careful de- graphs and letters. {cisions, especially if marriage is Q. Do the women leave the table before the men at an informal involved. Ay Children born on this day pro- g A." Neo; a 'me er o N a ai 4 bably will be superior to the aver- at an informal dinner the men and womsn usually leave the table together. ROBERT SIMPSON, Opt. D. Uraduate Los Angeies College of Optometry and Optialmology Glasses Fitted Lenses Ground “The Store for Men” SABIN’S Front St.—Triangle Bldg. | Percentage Increase | Jan. '41 to May '45 73 53 Weekly earning Average hourly earning Straight-time averag earnings 37 “Many months ago The Labor Digest warned that BaSA Rt v ben 2 war veterans would find upon their return to civilian 1t is clear that the emphasis upon basic wage rates jobs that they were small potatoes, indeed, compared | during the war placed labor’s position in the poorest | with the union organizer, the shop ste d and the | light and hence provided a stronger justification Iur“ grievance committee. They would find that the GI | wage increases than any of the other yardsticks. All; Bill of Rights and the honorable discharge were de- suggestions that one of the other measures more ap- ¢idedly secondary to the closed shop contract and the | Propriately indicated the relative change in worker. g - PR i positions or in production costs were considered to be union card. Finished with saluting every second anti-labor. Now we find the unions taking the very lieutenant in sight, they would come home to grease posticn they so severely criticized before. It is int “_' the outstretched palms of the dues collector. They | esting to note also that the yardstick selected for the | might have given their blood without extra charge | transition period is one which leaves labor with the on a foreign beach, but back in the U. S. A, they would | greatest improvement in its position. "The Rexall Store” Your Rellable Pharmacists BUTLER-MAURO DRUG CO. H. S. GRAVES HOME OF HART SCHAFFNED & MARX CLOTHING . hourly employment without joining the union age. They will have brains and tal-' ent of a high order o= (Copyright, 1945) 0 by v d LOOK and LEARN ¢ goroon CALIFORNIA This means 20,000 lush jobs under Grocery and Meat Marke! ate control, plus 1500 employ- ment offices. It also means a lot 1. For what is capital I, written in script with a line drawn through 478 — PHONES — 37) of patronage and influence for the t, a symbol? High Quality Foods &) state boodle boys. A 2. What have rayon and newspapers in common? Maeraia Pribge { What the boodle boys don' 3. Which is the least developed of the five senses among the lower s {realize, however, is hat employ- [gnimaics £ ment problems don't stop at state | i R L 4 lines. They are national. And very 4. Q0 whak are e wiskers make ] the Illi- (AFL) The Charles W. Carter having his men fire mortars, They |the CIO. Later, however, had fired 39,000 rounds in Bombat nois Federation of Labor PIGGLY WIGGLY 5. The Washingflion Merry - Go- Round (Continued from Page One) his planes on the ground at Manila | was even more serious than at Pearl Harbor, since he had had advance warning, and since he lost even more planes than at Pearl Harbor, deference 1o the Senators and fol- of courting yielded. The was taken However, in three rebellious lowing his principle committee unity, he criticism of MacArthur out. (Note—The Pearl Harbor report now shows that Gen. Marshall telephoned Manila on the morning of Dec. 7, to beware of a Jap at- tack, though he only warned Pearl Harbor by a slow commercial cable. In other words, all the fears of the General Staff were that Manila would be bombed first. Thus, Mac- Arthur had two warnings, Gen Marshall's and when the Japs hit Pearl Harbor ahead of the Philip- pines G.1. CHAFF station where they the discharge skids is J., carrier aircraft Twelve per cent of the at th ion were dis- charged in a si month. Men who have almost enought points for discharge given medical examinations then sent home imme t suffi- cient points ations Comdr. Donovar Wildwood Joe O'C the 413th Inf Aachen. He Ic across Germany him. His wife rejoiced that he ne the other day at Obispo, Ca. ordered to fire words to repeat their basic all over again with live amn tion. Mortars are treacherou shell burst just after leavir muzzle and now Joe O'Cc dead. He bled to death was no ambulance or doctor on range. Two others died wi plus 15 injured. In few weeks, they would have beer charged . Down at Fort Ja son, 8. C, Lt. Col E. V. H. Bell éommander of a mortar battalion, opposed the unnecessary risk u[‘ service 1 Navy men a ce outside the way was with mortars a ¥i | blessing and he felt had earned a rest. But Brig.. Gen. George Van W. Pope, Inspector for the Second Army, was furious. Many men are getting apathetic, wish they could! spend their time in education if thev must remain in the Army. G CAROL COOLS King Carol of Rumania no longer plays bridge in Mexico City, now! cools his heels in "Rio de Janeiro, the pawn in the queerest interna- tional tug-of-war. The Russians, believe it or want him back in Rumania. British and Americans don’t Despite Carol’s one - time link with the Iron Guard in Fascist Rumania, the Soviets apparently | think he will play their game. Just | as he was about to leave Rio,, however, the British pounced on| the Portuguese Government and got them to withdraw Carol's visa. | Without a Portuguese visa, he| can't get back to Europe. | Tip-off on the nature of Ru-| manian Government: Carol's fascist former Prime Minister, George Tatarescu, who was on the ! Rumanian war criminals list, is} now Foreign Minister with Soviet | o KI not, The | Tip-off on the close relations be- tween King Carol and Moscow: Cigarettes containing pictures of Carol have been distributed to Ru- manian prisoners in Russia with the help of Russian officials. * % % CAPITAL CHAFF Senator Kenneth Wherry, whom the people of Nebraska elected as a substitute for George Norris, was hopping mad when no one voted with him against confirmation of Under Secretary of State Dean In fact, he was so mad to resign as but unfortun- ed his mind . WP Krug has a fat job for himself with Wall mogul Floyd Odlum Krug's plage will be a former Navy man the WPB mainspring Though Mayor Ed Kelly was one of Trumen's at the Democratic Conven- he helped uman’s defeat in the gative com vote Con man Ray McKeough (o the Maritime Commission. Kelly and his pals on the Chicago Tri- bune stirred up AFL opposition to McKeough because worked for | Whip, Boss lined s Jack Small and long of Chi- ago stal- wart inspire U the n ex- he gave the Tribune the lie by okay-| | without a dissent- | Phil Hillman, two topmost CIO| are so bitter they scarcely | ing McKeough ing vote. otk speak to each " STATE UNEMPLOYMENT BOODLE the Jjobs One of recognized don Murray and excellent but little- e during the s that of the U. S. Employ- ment Service. work. Now, however, With labor than ever before, USES did a mag- | nificent job of steering men to war| 48 tighter state bosses | are licking their chops, demanding soon this country will be facing severe nation-wide unemployment. | The U. S. Employment Service, for | instance, has been working closely | with the Veterans’ Administration | in getting jobs for veterans. But| if USES goes back to state control, that cooperation will be difficult. (Copyright, 1945, by Bell Syndicate, Inc.) ——— NOTICE! 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